Wednesday, March 31, 2010

New Aplication: Auto Silence

This announcement is coming a bit late, but anyway...

Announcing Auto Silence on the Android Market!

The idea is pretty straight forward: get your phone to shut up by itself when you are busy. How? Using you Google Calendar App ( or from the Google Calendar website), set up those events during which your phone should be silent. Mark them by putting "[S]" (without the quotes) at the end of their names, and that's it. The phone will be silenced or put into vibration mode according to your preferences (you can change them from the application) when the events start, and the volume will be restored at the end of them.

If you are a student, set up your classes once at the beginning of the semester and forget about having to silence the phone for the rest of it.

4 comments:

  1. Guys,
    Thank you for developing my favorite app on my Incredible, AND thank you for making it free. I'm a student and really appreciate the quality of free apps on Android.

    Any plans to incorporate a couple feature requests? I, and others on the Market, would love to see buffer time added, so the phone silences, say 3 minutes before the event starts and stay silent 3 minutes after the event ends. That way your phone doesn't go off when your professor is in the room getting settled.

    A second request is to move the tags ([S], *$*) to the description so the titles of the events aren't muddled. This is minor, bot some of us are a bit OCD about our titles.

    If the project is open source I would love to dabble with it. I don't know anything about Android dev but I've done enough programming that I think I could stumble my way through it.

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  2. I've been using Auto Silence for a while and it's been working great. I have a couple of ideas that would make it even better.

    1) Rather than having a tag in the title, check if the appointment shows "Busy" or "Available" for the "Show me as" field of the event and set for silent when it shows as "Busy".

    2) Having a tag in the description for setting the silence before or after an event would be good so that it could be customized by event. An example could be putting "{-15+5}" in the description, and it could mean to start silencing 15 minutes before and 5 minutes after the event.

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  3. Perfect app but it NEEDS an autostart function! When you turn on the phone, it should run automatically, that is the point! Thanks for making this app!!

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  4. Wow very nice great information for android development many thanks for sharing post.

    Any plans to incorporate a couple feature requests? I, and others on the Market, would love to see buffer time added, so the phone silences, say 3 minutes before the event starts and stay silent 3 minutes after the event ends. That way your phone doesn't go off when your professor is in the room getting settled.

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